Li Qingmei put on her clothes and walked back and forth outside the gate to look into the distance. "It's pitch black, what can you see? Just sit quietly for now. Don't make any noise when people arrive. It's not too late for you to go out later."
Qiu Jianshe rarely made some suggestions, but after his wife glanced at him, he didn't insist.
"Hey, here I come." Li Qingmei turned over, got up in her slippers, and without even having time to put on her clothes, she trotted to open the door.
Qiu Jianshe also stood up. At first he didn't think much of it, thinking that he was back at all. But his wife was like a pancake, and she had turned his heart away as well.
"Dad, Mom, why aren't you two asleep?" Before they even reached the gate, Mother Qiu opened it from the inside. The two of them leaned over, one in front and one behind, and they were leading the mules and unloading the carts, and they were done in no time.
"Mom, the millet rice is warming in the clay pot. Wash your faces and I'll serve it right away." Li Qingmei pinched her daughter's chubby face and hurried to prepare the meal.
Qiu Jianshe lit the kerosene lamp and put it in the tea stall. He didn't know what to say, but just looked at his daughter and laughed.
"Grandma, Fourth Uncle, Yuling, we're back." Qiu Dashan and Qiu Dashu also rubbed their eyes and left the house.
"Big brother, third brother, I woke you up too." It was already the middle of the night and the crickets had given up chirping. It was a pity that they still got up.
Qiu Yuling took out a photo of her and Qiu Dahe from her bag and handed it to Qiu's father, who was closest to her.
Qiu Jianshe held it up and looked at it carefully under the kerosene lamp. The person in the photo looked like his son, but also not like his son.
"Is that my second brother? Let me see, let me see it too." Qiu Dashu instantly became alert. His father was looking at it carefully, so he moved closer. Not satisfied yet, he simply took it and looked at it in his hand.
"Second brother, second brother looks like a soldier." Qiu Dashu didn't know how to describe the feeling of the second brother in the photo. After organizing himself for a long time, he said this to his eldest brother who also came over.
Li Qingtong laughed heartily upon hearing this. "Taking a photo in a military uniform, doesn't that make you look like a soldier?" He had already seen it on the way here and had given it the same evaluation.
Qiu Yuling was also thinking at this moment, as expected of uncle and nephew, their vocabulary is generally limited.
She picked up some pickled cucumbers and fried a plate of eggs, then brought the millet rice to the table. Li Qingmei then called the three people who had just entered to come and eat.
"Sister, I don't want to eat anymore. I'm full." But even if he wasn't full, he finished the remaining three steamed buns and three dumplings by himself.
As the saying goes, dumplings when you get on a horse, noodles when you get off. We had already kneaded the noodles and made preparations for both scenarios, but they came back too late. Eating a bowl of dry noodles in the middle of the night was probably difficult for both the young and the old to digest.
This was finally replaced with millet rice.
"Mom, it's too dry. Give me some boiled water to mix it up. I'll just drink a few sips." Qiu Yuling misheard and thought the millet rice her mother was talking about was something similar to millet porridge. She never expected that what was served was thick rice.
The old lady did the same as Qiu Yuling. She poured some boiling water into the soup, stirred it and drank half a bowl. She would add some water to the rest and boil it into a thin liquid the next day, which she could have for breakfast.
Li Qingmei finally had time to sit down on the wooden bed in the tea shed. She carefully stroked the photo that Qiu Yuling brought. Qiu Dahe was no longer as thin as before he left. Although he still looked thin, his spirit was obviously different.
She turned it over and over, looking at it with a motherly love that could never get enough of it.
After looking through the photos of her children, she noticed one of her mother. "Mom, are you taking a picture of your old age?"
"Well, prepare in advance."
There didn't seem to be anything wrong with what she wanted to say. People prepare in advance when they get old. Some people don't have photos when they are old, so they have to make do with photos of their youth.
But I still felt uncomfortable. My thoughts about my son who was far away were instantly divided into half.
"Yuling, come here. Daddy has seen that Lingling has grown a lot taller. Let Daddy compare."
Qiu Yuling went over as she was told. Both father and daughter stood up straight, and Qiu Yuling was already at Qiu Jianshe's chest.
"You've really grown taller." Father Qiu seemed very happy. He might be the person who cared about Qiu Yuling the most in the past two months.
"It's too late. Let's go to bed first. We can talk tomorrow if you have anything to say." Seeing that Qiu Jianshe was about to have a long chat with her daughter, Li Qingmei interrupted him decisively.
Then go to sleep!
Perhaps she was tired from traveling, or perhaps she slept too late last night, but when Qiu Yuling woke up, the yard was quiet and there was no one there.
"Dad? Mom? Grandma? Big brother? Third brother? Fourth uncle?" He called out to everyone he could, but there was indeed no one there.
Her family members all went to work, so where were her grandmother and uncle?
Forget it, I won’t think about it for now if I can’t figure it out. I’ll find out when someone comes back and asks.
Qiu Yuling went to the backyard to look at her group of old friends, who were so devoted to her that they didn't even give her a second glance.
But after Wanjin barked twice, the pigs also started barking and grunting, the sheep also bleated, and even the rabbits that were eating grass quickly ran back to the clay pot and hid.
It's only been a short time since she was away, and the top leader's military power has been stripped away?
There was no one around, so I took the opportunity to feed them some good food. There were white eggs in the chicken coop. I reached in and felt around, and wow, there were a bunch of them.
She pulled the basket over and picked up seven eggs, one rooster and four hens. She could collect so many eggs in a day, so there would be enough for the family to eat.
After Qiu Yuling entered the house, she was thinking of adding a few more eggs so that she could have dumplings stuffed with leeks and eggs for lunch. However, when she looked, the basket for eggs was empty.
She didn't believe that Qiu's mother could distribute one egg per person every day. She must have sold it.
She couldn't take care of it when she was away, but from the moment she came back, Chicken Butt Bank could only benefit her family.
It turned out that she was trying every possible way to bring supplies home, as she was worried that they wouldn't have enough to eat or wear, so she exchanged this and that, and bought all kinds of small pills at high prices. Although she didn't have enough points to buy them now, it was all within her plan.
But her mother was so good that when she finally got something to nourish her body, she sold it all.
The more Qiu Yuling thought about it, the angrier she became. She stopped eating the eggs, turned around, went out, and chopped up the rooster that had just pecked her.
What kind of dumplings can be as delicious as Dapanji?
After taking a look, I saw that there was quite a lot of noodles in the jar. It seemed that she lived a very frugal life when she was not around.
She scooped out enough dough, let it ferment, kneaded it, added some fragrant bean powder, rolled it into small rolls, and put it on the chopping board to wake up.
He stirred the pot, took out a piece of chicken and horse meat, tasted it, and it was rotten.
Pour the potatoes in and put the rolls on top and simmer together.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, she hurried into the farmhouse to take a good bath.
After washing, I took out the steamed buns and put them into the small winnowing basket for steamed buns. I also put the green and red peppers and garlic sprouts into the pan and stir-fried them until they were almost done. Then I turned off the fire, covered the pot and waited for the people who were off work to come back.
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